I gravitated away from the Winamp skinning world about when garetjax came along.
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Originally Posted by garetjax
Also, 1001skins - if ever need could host any forum(s) for free for as long as needed; and even integrate to the 1001skins site if needed.
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My preference would be for the forums to be distinct, existing of and for themselves, rather than as a section of a skins site.
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Originally Posted by rockouthippie
I think we have enough hosting. I can give most of a dedicated server to the task if we could figure out how to proceed. I have a server I use for backups in a Berlin data center. It's pretty empty.
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Good to know - thanks.
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Originally Posted by DrO
from what i'm aware off, there should be no issues with community based sites (whatever the name used)
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Agreed - I think we're fine to use *winamp*.com, since there are plenty of examples of hobbyists setting up [product]forums.com etc.
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It doesn't appear that we'll get any joy in terms of a forums database export, so I propose that we do the following:
- Settle on a domain - winampforum.com or winampforums.com
- Choose a host - must be reliable and ongoing
- Choose which software to use. Unless someone wants to buy vB, I think we should go with PHPBB or Vanilla. PHPBB looks more like a traditional forum than Vanilla, and tuckerm would be happy to get PHPBB going.
- Install chosen software and replicate the existing forum structure
Could someone run a script to download the forum attachments, avatars ...?